Over 1 million aquamarine animals are killed each year by the plastic waste in the ocean. Plastic Pollution. Plastic pollution is a problem facing the world at the moment. There is around 51 trillion microscopic pieces of plastic in the water, combined this weighs around 269,000 tones. It takes around 450 years for this plastic to break down meaning that deposing of plastic incorrectly causes a
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